Building Addressables Bundles in Batch Mode

I currently have a continuous integration system set up to build bundles using Unity in. batch mode. It seems like the bundle build is currently tied to pressing the Build button in the build settings. Is there currently a way to invoke a bundle build from batch mode? In other projects using Unity Cloud Build, is there an API we can call to invoke a build from a pre-export method?

 

Try this:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/add...work-in-unity-2018-2-1f1.543274/#post-3587811

Core method is BuildScript.PrepareRuntimeData().

But I can't find about BuildScript.PrepareRuntimeData() in current manual. So it can be changed in future version of Addressables.

 

BuildScript.PrepareRuntimeData() Doesn't seem to exist anymore. I'm really struggling to figure out how to build addressable bundles/catalogs headlessly on our build server. Any help with this would be hugely appreciated

 

This is how you build content now:

Code (CSharp):

1.             AddressableAssetSettings.CleanPlayerContent();
2.             BuildCache.PurgeCache(false);
3.             AddressableAssetSettings.BuildPlayerContent();

Works fine in our CI pipeline.

 

Quick question, why would you purge the build cache every time? Unless you don't care how long builds take of course.

 

Because this function is called when clean the build cache via Addressables GUI. And we had an issue with wrong shaders being compiled into bundles in CI before adding this.

 

Interesting! We have had no such issues, we just have to remember to occasionally clean the cache when it takes too much space.